India setting up 17 new hospitals dedicated to combating COVID-19

People work to build a makeshift hospital at Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium in Guwahati, India, March 26, 2020. Local government has decided to convert two stadiums in Guwahati into makeshift hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients. The death toll due to COVID-19 in India on Thursday morning rose to 13, the federal health ministry said, with 649 confirmed cases reported so far. (Str/Xinhua)